Experience running Rhino on Macbook Pro 14 inch with M5 pro chip

Rhino Mac Hardware
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Thinking of getting a more portable laptop that still can handle Rhino. I really like testing things in render display mode. Would this be enough?
14 inch m5 pro chip
18-core CPU, 20-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine
48GB unified memory
2TB SSD storage

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That’s what i run, great machine. A lot depends on what Rhino versions you need to run, as well as plugins. Older versions may be incompatible with the latest/future MacOS.

Note that Rhino 9 is expected to have worksession for mac as well as Rhino.Inside and maybe even local compute.

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Thanks. So you use an 14 inch?
I run Rhino 8

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Correct. What are your concerns? What type of workflows do you intend to do?

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Ok interesting.
I model architecture. Sometimes the files get pretty big.

  1. I really like modelling in render display mode which I am doing currently on my legion 5 with a nvidia RTX 5070-ti.
    If it isn’t the fastest rendering out files it isn’t the most important but wouldn’t complain if it could do this and handle raytraced mode ok.

  2. I kind of rely on alias and python scripts. I hope I can implement them in MacOS.
    A lot of them have to do with layers, sorting objects and making fast adjustments to their properties in the object properties panel, ie. set everything to byLayer, byParent.

  3. Size of projects. I currently have a file that is 350 MB another one that is 665 MB. They could be cleaned up but It usually gets a little bit messy while experimenting and I tend to clean up later. Maybe a bad habit

Thanks for the help